A Channel Crossing (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone,Fared the steamer alert and loud through seas ...
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone,Fared the steamer alert and loud through seas ...
The weary day runs down and dies,The weary night wears through:And never an hour is fair wi' flower,And never a ...
I hid my heart in a nest of roses,Out of the sun's way, hidden apart;In a softer bed than the ...
Between the green bud and the redYouth sat and sang by Time, and shed From eyes and tresses flowers ...
Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee, I, God, the spirit of man?Wherefore now ...
1 BLESSED was she that bare, Hidden in flesh most fair,For all men's sake ...
A faint sea without wind or sun;A sky like flameless vapour dun; A valley like an unsealed graveThat no ...
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, Remembering thee,That for ages of agony hast endured, ...
At the chill high tide of the night, At the turn of the fluctuant hours,When the waters of time ...
Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear,Wind of swift change, and clouds and hours that veerAs the ...
In a vision Liberty stood By the childless charm-stricken bedWhere, barren of glory and good,Knowing nought if she would ...
A little soul scarce fledged for earthTakes wing with heaven again for goalEven while we hailed as fresh from birth ...
TAKE HANDS and part with laughter; Touch lips and part with tears;Once more and no more after, Whatever ...
I.—VENTIMIGLIAThe sky and sea glared hard and bright and blank:Down the one steep street, with slow steps firm and free,A ...
I.Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote usAs mourners clothed with regret for the life gone by;To the ...
But now life's face beholden Seemed bright as heaven's bare browWith hope of gifts withholden But now. ...
I hid my heart in a nest of roses, Out of the sun's way, hidden apart; In a softer bed ...
I -- In Church Thou whose birth on earth Angels sang to men, While thy stars made mirth, Saviour, at ...
Somno mollior unda I Dawn is dim on the dark soft water, Soft and passionate, dark and sweet. Love's own ...
Inside this northern summer's fold The fields are full of naked gold, Broadcast from heaven on lands it loves; The ...
CHILD, when they say that others Have been or are like you, Babes fit to be your brothers, Sweet human ...
Far beyond the sunrise and the sunset rises Heaven, with worlds on worlds that lighten and respond: Thought can see ...
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, Remembering thee, That for ages of agony hast endured, and ...
Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear, Wind of swift change, and clouds and hours that veer ...
But now life's face beholden Seemed bright as heaven's bare brow With hope of gifts withholden But now. From time's ...
At the chill high tide of the night, At the turn of the fluctuant hours, When the waters of time ...
Vicisti, Galilæe I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end; Goddess and maiden and ...
The trumpets of the four winds of the world From the ends of the earth blow battle; the night heaves, ...
Watchman, what of the night? - Storm and thunder and rain, Lights that waver and wane, Leaving the watchfires unlit. ...
eipate toi basilei, xamai pese daidalos aula. ouketi PHoibos exei kaluban, ou mantida daphnen, ou pagan laleousan . apesbeto kai ...
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